The phrase "hold mindset" can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to a way of thinking that someone has and sticks to it. For example: "John held a mindset that success was reliant on hard work, and he never changed his opinion on the matter throughout his life."
Purchase step-up issues with a buy-and-hold mindset.
My experience gave me more sympathy for people holding mindsets that I wish would disappear.
Just asking the questions loosens the hold on the mindset.
With surveys showing that more than 80% of households feel inflation is rising, it is hard to argue that Japan any longer holds a deflationary mindset.
"How could we know that the gangsters of Delhi would get him and take him away from us?" Sandeep Govil, a psychiatrist at the prison where the men are being held, summarizes their mindset: "It's our right.
It also fits in with the wider political strategy of blaming individuals for shortcomings in the system – people without jobs failing to look for work, people with disabilities holding the wrong mindset, people with too many rooms who are selfish.
The review said: "While acknowledging the large quantity of work conducted by Surrey Police with an open-minded intention, Operation Stanza has found some evidence of a possible mindset held by key individuals directing and controlling enquiries who have indicated the re-investigations were in some way 'different'".
This mindset holds that anything white is superior, and it has caused many black people to go to absurd lengths to seem whiter (both culturally and literally).
In addition, many Vietnamese family planning providers are still holding the same mindset planted by the IUD campaigns in the 1980s.
Keep that mindset forever.
Of course, I don't expect that mindset to hold up forever — GigaOM reported late last year that Apple earmarked $7.1 billion for non-retail capital expenditures in 2012, with the implication that a good chunk of it would go to bolstering the company's cloud operations.
